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How to start using Twitter

TCwebsite — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 15:41:43 +0000

Twitter will ultimately serve as your main news portal. Yes that’s a big statement but it is already happening. 80% of Twitter users use it to follow their own personal news interests from a variety of sources (newspapers, magazines, bloggers, colleagues). The other 20% Tweet about their own opinions, share links and thoughts about their interests. They acquire followers if they stay on topic and provide valuable info with their Tweets. Some become leaders in their industry.

So how do you get set up to really use Twitter? Let’s get started with some homework:

Step 1 of 2 If you don’t have a Twitter account, sign up here (it’s free).

Fill out your credentials. I recommend you use your own personal name for the username (people tend to follow other people). You might want to have a separate company twitter account for official postings.

Follow 1 person or organization.

Let Twitter browse your email addresses to see who else you know that is already on Twitter. Follow those that interest you. Many newspapers and magazines mirror their stories on Twitter. Use Google to search for your favorite news IE: search: “nytimes arts twitter” to find the arts section on Twitter and follow it.

That’s it, you are now on Twitter and Twitter does a nice job of suggesting who you might want to follow (oh and follow your fellow friends & colleagues). Make sure you upload a photo of yourself (or company logo) so people can see who you are.

Step 2

How to actually use twitter:

You will want to manage your Tweets, Mentions, and Direct Messages through TweetDeck. This is an insanely fast, fun and friendly way to stay on top of what’s going on in your area of interest.

Install the TweetDeck Desktop version to run minimized so it is always available. With 2 monitors you can run TweetDeck on your 2nd monitor to quickly check your news feed. I try to check TweetDeck 2x per day and go through my entire news feed only at those times (sometimes I slip :)

Now that you have TweetDeck setup it will automatically stream news from colleagues, newspapers, blogs or magazines your are interested in. You will be building your own custom news portal. If you want video training head over to support.

Most importantly have fun and don’t pressure yourself to get up to speed fast. It will take time to find people and websited to follow, unfollow Tweeters you don’t care for and build up your own personal efficiently supercharged fun news portal :)

Need to get your newsletter or magazine online?

TCwebsite — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 14:38:09 +0000

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TCwebsite — Tue, 04 May 2010 11:24:48 +0000

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Build a video from your photos in less than 10 minutes

TCwebsite — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:09:44 +0000

This is a very cool tool to show off a listing, your hotel, restaurant, products, retail space, anything that you would normally use rotating images or build a slideshow for. The video I made below honestly took 10 minutes to put together! Check out http://animoto.com to try it for free

What do you think? Any other uses you can think of for this video technology?

Teambuilding and company transparency 2.0

Peter Ericson — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 16:17:09 +0000

How would you like to instantly and informally communicate with your entire team in seconds? Think Twitter for a group and you have Yammer.com

Yammer allows a team (located anywhere in the world) to share anything they have stumbled upon online, new business thought, question, or something humorous right now.

We use it daily and it brings our virtual office team 1 step closer. I have seen it solve problems on the fly without having to call, email or IM several people at a time.

It’s also the great water cooler, letting everyone post personal thoughts, vent, and share something hilarious.

I have found it is a very human way to communicate efficiently and would recommend it to any group wanting to connect more frequently.

BTW it’s free to start and it lives in your Firefox status-bar for easy access.